Why don’t regular youtube views work for ranking short videos?

How significant are links when ranking YouTube videos? This is regarding ranking on the YouTube search results not Google. When ranking videos from research it would seem very good watch time (high ren) views are the biggest factor, and then comments, likes and very good title/description/tags are key too. My question is how important are backlinks, I read video embeds, social signals/bookmarks and shares are good. I wonder though how important are they compared with lots of good views, and I guess if the links are needed it's important to...How significant are links when ranking YouTube videos?

YouTube Ranking Top 3 Spot What up guys! I am playing with YouTube for a last couple of days, but it seems YouTube plays with me ... My goal is to rank videos and monetize them with CPA. Videos are dancing around - I tried drip feed views, HR views, likes, social signals, comments. But it looks to me that their system is smarter every day. I only tried the public method, but if you think that unlisted can do better, tell me/us more about that. I did rank a second, third position but I've been also...YouTube Ranking Top 3 Spot

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How do view pumper bots work on YouTube? I've seen spammy videos with 4 million views. How do people pump the views on these views so much? Because I'm assuming after 100 or so views from an IP it's no longer counted? So do they just have a huge amount of proxies?